CrawlPactOAI-AdsBot
- User-agent token
- OAI-AdsBot
- Purpose
- Advertising / validation
- Status
- active
- Last verified
- 2026-07-24
OpenAI documents OAI-AdsBot as the crawler used “to validate the safety of web pages submitted
as ads on ChatGPT. When you submit an ad, OpenAI may visit the landing page to ensure it complies
with our policies.” OpenAI’s documentation states the data it collects “is not used to train
generative AI foundation models.”
Why this is different from GPTBot
OAI-AdsBot only visits pages that have been submitted as ChatGPT ads, for compliance and
relevance checks — it is unrelated to GPTBot’s training-data collection or OAI-SearchBot’s
search indexing.
Published IP ranges
OpenAI publishes OAI-AdsBot’s IP ranges at https://openai.com/adsbot.json, in addition to
supporting standard robots.txt disallow rules.
Site-owner controls
Standard robots.txt disallow rules apply. See /limitations for what a
robots.txt rule can and cannot guarantee.
Example robots.txt configuration
To disallow OAI-AdsBot specifically, without affecting any other crawler:
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Disallow: /If no dedicated User-agent: OAI-AdsBot group exists in a domain's robots.txt, this crawler falls back to whatever the wildcard User-agent: * group says (RFC 9309) — see robots.txt syntax basics for how group selection works.
Verified against the source above as of 2026-07-24 — see how CrawlPact verifies crawler information.
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